sawyer's moon Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 I started with soy a year ago and was able to make very decent, strong smelling candles. The soy gave my mil headaches so I switched to parrafin and have only dabbled here and there in soy since then. I got the Pryme dyes in this weekend and wanted to play with soy again...and have been reading about adding beeswax to the soy to help smooth out the tops. So - I used EZ soy from BCN and added 2% beeswax and I still got the crumbly looking tops. I will of course do some more testing with different %s but from my research - this seemed to be the norm and people getting smooth tops....Thanks for any help!Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekrunner Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 I use 3% BW in the GW415 from MC and I have to pour cloudy to slushy for smooth tops. How hot/cool do you pour? Sometimes if you pour too cool the tops can get a little bumpy looking but otherwise smooth. If yuo take temps it will be around 95*-100*. I'm not familiar with EZ soy but if you're pouring hot, you may try pouring a little cooler, or pour at same temp and increase BW to 3%. You can tell if you have too much BW if your candles start cracking. I'm sure other CTers who use EZ Soy will chime in.HTH! geek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawyer's moon Posted February 6, 2006 Author Share Posted February 6, 2006 Thank you!!!! I *know* I poured my second one too cool (120ish) so had more unevenness with that one!Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 You have to pour EZ very cool, like 100* or less. I add 2% BW to mine and pour when it gets thick syrupy but not before it gets grainy syrupy, if you know what I mean!! If you get the temp right you will have great candles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawyer's moon Posted February 7, 2006 Author Share Posted February 7, 2006 Thank you, Marilyn! This was my first time coloring soy and it threw me off a bit trying to determine correct slushyness...that seems to be the key, though!Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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